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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 53%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 72%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 58%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 81%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 70%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 81%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 33%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 39%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 88%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 42%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 72%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 37%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 70%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 0%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 88%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 72%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 78%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 48%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 64%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 74%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 81%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 44%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 51%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 17%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 81%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 23%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 61%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 28%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 72%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 67%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 85%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 72%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 72%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 25%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 23%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 34%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 74%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 53%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 23%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 44%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 70%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 63%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 88%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 28%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 35%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 63%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 10%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 36%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 44%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 23%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 36%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 23%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 54%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 56%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 37%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 88%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 81%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 88%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 28%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 79%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 21%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 52%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 88%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 72%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 88%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 28%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 32%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 37%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 81%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 85%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 56%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 88%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 58%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 74%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 30%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 36%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 21%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 32%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 63%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 74%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 42%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 59%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 10%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 23%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 25%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 81%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 21%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 34%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 37%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 67%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 67%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 17%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 28%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 88%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 69%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Wayne Allard 72%
Thomas Allen 23%
Bill Archer 88%
Richard Armey 88%
John Ashcroft 88%
Richard Hugh Baker 88%
John Baldacci 28%
Cass Ballenger 78%
James Barcia 34%
Robert Barr, Jr. 64%
Bill Barrett 61%
Roscoe Bartlett 85%
Charlie Bass 58%
Herbert Bateman 61%
Bob Bennett 57%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 32%
Douglas Bereuter 56%
Howard Berman 0%
Marion Berry 41%
Brian Bilbray 54%
Michael Bilirakis 74%
Jeff Bingaman 28%
Rod Blagojevich 28%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 67%
Sherwood Boehlert 46%
Kit Bond 56%
Henry Bonilla 72%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Mary Bono Mack 64%
Robert Borski, Jr. 23%
Leonard Boswell 43%
Rick Boucher 34%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 46%
John Breaux 42%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Richard Bryan 0%
Ed Bryant 88%
Conrad Burns 72%
Dan Burton 77%
Steve Buyer 64%
Robert Byrd 31%
Herbert Callahan 88%
Ben Campbell 57%
Thomas Campbell 49%
Chris Cannon 88%
Julia Carson 0%
Mike Castle 51%
John Chafee 48%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 51%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 30%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 39%
Robert Clement 41%
Michael Collins 88%
Larry Combest 88%
Gary Condit 47%
Kent Conrad 20%
Merrill Cook 85%
John Cooksey 88%
Jerry Costello 22%
Paul Coverdell 72%
Christopher Cox 88%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 72%
Robert Cramer 46%
Philip Crane 81%
Barbara Cubin 81%
Randall Cunningham 78%
Patsy Ann Danner 48%
Thomas Daschle 10%
James Davis 41%
Thomas Davis III 59%
Bill Delahunt 0%
Thomas DeLay 88%
Peter Deutsch 32%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 49%
Jay Dickey 88%
Norm Dicks 21%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 55%
Calvin Dooley 39%
John Doolittle 85%
Byron Dorgan 20%
David Dreier 88%
Jennifer Dunn 79%
Chet Edwards 23%
Vern Ehlers 58%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 74%
Jo Ann Emerson 64%
Philip English 53%
Bob Etheridge 37%
Lane Evans 23%
Terry Everett 85%
Thomas Ewing 88%
Russ Feingold 36%
Mark Foley 81%
Michael Patrick Forbes 48%
Harold Ford, Jr. 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 70%
Tillie Fowler 67%
Barney Frank 23%
Robert Franks 54%
William Frist 62%
Jonas Frost III 32%
Elton Gallegly 74%
John Ganske 52%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 61%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 74%
Wayne Gilchrest 56%
Paul Gillmor 61%
Benjamin Gilman 51%
Newt Gingrich 88%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 70%
William Goodling 64%
Bart Gordon 42%
Slade Gorton 63%
Porter Goss 88%
Daniel Graham 36%
William Phillip Gramm 88%
Rodney Grams 85%
James Greenwood 57%
Judd Gregg 63%
Gilbert Gutknecht 61%
Tony Hall 36%
James Hansen 88%
J. Dennis Hastert 79%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 88%
Joel Hefley 88%
Jesse Helms 88%
Wally Herger, Jr. 79%
Rick Hill 57%
Van Hilleary 85%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
David Lee Hobson 64%
Pete Hoekstra 85%
Thomas Holden 37%
Ernest Hollings 36%
Darlene Hooley 32%
Stephen Horn 56%
John Nathan Hostettler 70%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 49%
Kenny Hulshof 74%
Duncan Hunter 74%
Asa Hutchinson 59%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 88%
Kay Hutchison 82%
Henry Hyde 70%
Daniel Inouye 19%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 88%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 23%
William Jefferson 0%
James Merrill Jeffords 43%
William Lewis Jenkins 85%
Christopher John 47%
Nancy Johnson 46%
Paul Kanjorski 0%
Sue Kelly 59%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 10%
Patrick Kennedy 23%
Bob Kerrey 20%
Dale Kildee 22%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 34%
Ronald Klink 33%
Joseph Knollenberg 81%
Herb Kohl 41%
James Kolbe 70%
Dennis Kucinich 23%
Jon Kyl 88%
John LaFalce 22%
Ray LaHood 51%
Nicholas Lampson 0%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 72%
Steve LaTourette 55%
Frank Lautenberg 0%
Rick Lazio 53%
James Leach 48%
Jerry Lewis 66%
Ron Lewis 81%
Joe Lieberman 43%
John Linder 88%
William Lipinski 45%
Robert Livingston 78%
Trent Lott, Sr. 83%
Dick Lugar 57%
William Luther 37%
Connie Mack 63%
James Maloney 42%
Don Manzullo 81%
Matthew Martinez 0%
Frank Mascara 23%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 32%
Bill McCollum 74%
James McCrery III 67%
John McHugh 47%
Scott McInnis 88%
David McIntosh 88%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 23%
Michael McNulty 0%
Martin Meehan 23%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 59%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 88%
David Minge 39%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 0%
Alan Mollohan 37%
Constance Morella 45%
Patrick Moynihan 0%
Frank Murkowski 85%
Jack Murtha 37%
Sue Myrick 88%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 64%
Robert William Ney 53%
Don Nickles 88%
Anne Northup 70%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 85%
James Nussle 59%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 0%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 29%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 81%
Ronald Packard 79%
Mike Parker 77%
Ron Paul 50%
Donald Payne 0%
Edward Pease 67%
John Peterson 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 88%
Owen Pickett 44%
Richard Pombo 85%
Earl Pomeroy 30%
John Edward Porter 52%
Deborah Pryce 67%
Jack Quinn 53%
George Radanovich 88%
James Ramstad 51%
Ralph Regula 59%
Silvestre Reyes 22%
Bob Riley 70%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 30%
Charles Robb 39%
Ciro Rodriguez 23%
Timothy Roemer 45%
James Rogan 67%
William Roth, Jr. 54%
Steve Rothman 23%
Marge Roukema 51%
Jim Ryun 88%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 43%
Rick Santorum 72%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 63%
Joe Scarborough 85%
John Shadegg 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 56%
Christopher Shays 47%
E.G. Shuster 74%
Norman Sisisky 40%
Joseph Skeen 61%
Ike Skelton 41%
Gordon Smith 57%
Nick Smith 72%
Bob Smith 88%
Olympia Snowe 49%
Vic Snyder 33%
Mark Souder 64%
Arlen Specter 47%
Floyd Spence 74%
John Spratt, Jr. 34%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 85%
Charles Stenholm 45%
Ted Stevens 52%
Ted Strickland 37%
Bob Stump 88%
Bart Stupak 23%
John Sununu 88%
James Talent 88%
John Tanner 43%
Ellen Tauscher 43%
William Tauzin 67%
Charles Taylor 85%
Gene Taylor 55%
Craig Thomas 72%
William Thomas 67%
Fred Thompson 88%
Karen Thurman 34%
Strom Thurmond 84%
Todd Tiahrt 88%
Robert Torricelli 32%
Ed Towns 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 47%
James Turner 45%
Bruce Vento 0%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 74%
John Warner 57%
Wesley Watkins 74%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 64%
David Weldon 79%
W. Curtis Weldon 55%
Gerald Weller 59%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 0%
Bob Weygand 34%
Bob Wise, Jr. 0%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
Albert Wynn 23%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.

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